Have You Met Miss Jones?

PROFILE

Composer

Richard Rodgers

Lyricist

Lorenz Hart

Year Written

1937

About Have You Met Miss Jones?

Rodgers and Hart wrote “Have You Met Miss Jones?” for the musical revue I’d Rather Be Right. It’s one of their sweetest and most charming love songs, as the young man who is introduced to Miss Jones and falls in love immediately. In addition to Bennett’s recording, other significant recordings include those by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

Lyrics

It happened
I felt it happened
I was awake
I wasn’t blind
I didn’t think
I felt it happened
now I believe in matter over mind.

And now you see we mustn’t wait
the nearest moment that we marry is too late!

Have you met Miss Jones
someone said as we shook hands
She was just Miss Jones to me

Then I said, “Miss Jones
you’re a girl who understands
I’m a man who must be free.”

And all at once I lost my breath
and all at once was scared to death
and all at once I oned the earth and sky!

Now I met Miss Jones
and well keep on meeting till we die
Miss Jones and I